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Daniel Dulaney
Data enthusiast with 3 years of professional data science experience working for an MLB analytics team (Pittsburgh). Strong stats/programming background – I especially enjoy data visualization, building R Shiny apps, and automating a nice report. I thrive in team environments and love finding curious, collaborative, thoughtful people to do cool stuff with.
Industry Experience
Fellow, Baseball Informatics
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh, PA
Dec 2021 - Feb 2019
- Cleaned, collected, and manipulated data (often large and messy); wrote data cleaning pipelines through SQL jobs, R packages/functions; scraped web pages often (using page HTML/JSON, and Selenium)
- Built statistical models to answer pressing research questions, automate data quality checks, and rank (and value) players using a variety of statistics, measures, and data sources; used modeling tools/packages such as tidymodels, caret, and scikit-learn
- Managed and queried from tables/databases within an extensive team database; wrote SQL code to create tables, clean incoming data, and store/manage it moving forward
- Presented research findings through clean, thoughtful outputs; visualizations, tables, dashboards, write-ups, and applications using tools like ggplot2, R Markdown, and R Shiny; often intended for outside, non-technical audiences
- Collaborated alongside many analysts and engineers on data/research projects; planning, project management, and the sharing of results were all done with care and intent
Education
M.S., Statistics
NC State
Online
May 2022 - Aug 2020
- Coursework included: Bayesian models, machine learning, technical communication / consulting
B.S., Statistics (minor Philosophy, Economics)
NC State
Raleigh, NC
May 2019 - Aug 2016
- Coursework included: Statistical theory, R/Python/SAS, regression/linear models, experimental design
- Involved with Sports Analytics Club, Doran’s Lab (data science), did independent stats/data projects with profesors, PhD students, and peers
Statistics
UNC-Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
May 2016 - Aug 2014
- Member of baseball team, Honors College
Projects/Research
Undergraduate Research
Stats Department, Doran’s Lab
NC State
May 2019 - July 2017
- Data projects for NC State baseball team – web scraped box scores, classified pitches with clustering algorithms, automated player/team reports, made various data visualizations
- Projects with Doran’s Lab (a data science research group) – included deep / reinforcement learning reading groups & implementations, data wrangling, visualizations. Good programming practices with Python were emphasized.